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So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:26 ESV / 46 helpful votes. Helpful. Not Helpful. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
Anytime someone invents a machine, writes a book, paints a landscape, enjoys a symphony, calculates a sum, or names a pet, he or she is proclaiming the fact that we are made in God’s image. Morally, humanity was created in righteousness and perfect innocence, a reflection of God’s holiness.
Genesis 1:27 tells us that we are made in the image of God. But what does that really mean? We are made in God’s image because God wants to be in a relationship with us.
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
God created us in his image so that we would display or reflect or communicate who he is, how great he is, and what he is like. Here’s the picture in my mind. I was created like a mirror.
We have been created in God’s image communally. While we as individuals, have been created uniquely and lovingly in God’s image. The problem is that our sin has caused us to miss the whole picture. Genesis tells us, “In the image of God he created them” (Genesis 1:27).
We Are Image-Bearers of God. In the New Testament, the teaching of Jesus indicates the value of human beings implicit in their being God's image-bearers (Matt 6:26; 12:12). More important, Jesus himself perfectly images God in his life and ministry as he relates to God, people, and nature.
Genesis 1:26 asserts that humankind is made in the imago Dei (quite literally “the image of God”). While we do not share the incommunicable attributes of God—his omnipotence, omniscience, or omnipresence—we do share in a finite and imperfect way such communicable attributes as spirituality (John 4:24), rationality (Colossians 3:10), and ...
Central to the Bible’s teaching about mankind is the statement of Genesis 1:27: “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him.” Genesis 1:26 recorded God’s will for the human race: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”